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GlobeXplorer, an online repository on ... (Dec 30 2004 22:59 GMT) - GlobeXplorer, an online repository on Satelitte images and maps, has striking before and after pictures of tsunami damage. The two pictures below are from the Indonesian area of Banda Aceh, approximately 250km from the earthquake's epicenter. |
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Tsunami warning halted ‘for tourist industry’ (Dec 30 2004 22:59 GMT) - Just minutes after the earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning, Thailand’s foremost meteorological experts were sitting together in a crisis meeting. But they decided not to warn about the tsunami “out of courtesy to the tourist industry,” writes the Thailand daily newspaper The Nation. Tip of the hat to MeFi |
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No New Clues in Hunt for Missing N.C. Pair (Dec 30 2004 22:59 GMT) - A renewed search for clues about a woman and her 15-year-old granddaughter missing for three weeks came up empty for a second day Thursday along waterways near Kinston, authorities said. Police have no suspects and no explanation of what happened to Gail Haddock-Dail, 58, of Kinston, and her granddaughter, Heather Lynn Roberts, 15. |
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Resolutions to Remember (Dec 30 2004 22:58 GMT) - Do more Mobile and Embedded programming Go back to County Kerry, Eire Take more photos Keep running Go back to New Orleans Visit California at least twice Return to Paris, France Fall in love Celebrate life everyday Blog about it all This Blog Hosted On: http://www.DotNetJunkies.com/ |
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?Extreme Reunion? Unites Sisters (Dec 30 2004 22:57 GMT) - Sisters Maria Monroe and Loraine Novak have never experienced sibling rivalry with each other. As children, they never fought over dolls or stayed up past their bedtimes giggling about boys. But this Christmas, like families all over the country, they came together to share memories and laughter. Monroe, 34, and Novak, 37, ... |
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Liberty for Safety? (Dec 30 2004 22:57 GMT) - Q:Who was it who said, "he who would trade liberty for safety deserves neither"? A:Nobody but a bunch of underinformed couch political scientists. (I like to think of myself as an informed couch political scientist. |
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Tsunami' : la catastrophe naturelle la plus dévastatrice jamais enregistrée, anticipe Jan Egeland (Dec 30 2004 22:57 GMT) - 28 décembre - A l'issue d'une réunion d'échange d'informations avec les pays affectés par le raz-de-marée qui a frappé l'Asie du Sud, le Coordonnateur des secours humanitaires a rendu hommage à la générosité de l'assistance internationale au lendemain d'un désastre qui a déjà fait plus de 40.000 victimes et qui est sans doute la plus grande catastrophe humanitaire d'origine naturelle jamais enregistrée. « Il s'agit probablement d'une des catastrophes naturelles les plus dévastatrices jamais (...) |
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The Last Winner (Dec 30 2004 22:57 GMT) - THE LAST WINNER <-- Mikal Carter does some really great animations. view his most recent.... |
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Tutorials at Acapella Heaven (Dec 30 2004 22:56 GMT) - I'm on a quest to learn techniques for clearing up some particularly nasty artifacts on a poorly recorded acapella that I've been working with for my latest mash-up (TBA -- stay tuned). There's a ton of record crackle and hiss,... |
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Stingy Americans? (Dec 30 2004 22:56 GMT) - A United Nations representative recently made comments to the effect that the world's richest nations were being "stingy" in how much they were contributing towards tsunami relief, drawing a defensive response from the United States, whose $35 million contribution (up from an initial paltry $15 million) has apparently exhausted its emergency relief fund. The article quotes W as saying that the United States has contributed 40% of all relief aid this year, and I have no reason to dispute that figure. However, the devastation in the wake of the tsunami clearly requires higher contributions from all nations. For example, as I write this Spain has pledged $67 million and Great Britain has pledged $97 million, a clear sign that the United States needs to reevaluate its contribution to relief efforts. In response to the United States' alleged emergency relief fund woes, I have a simple solution: |
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